Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.

Letters: n  c  d  e  h  l  u

• Total Answers: 32
• Pangrams: 2
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CL

1. CL6 — the act or manner of holding; to have or keep in one's hands; clasp; grapple; grasp sounds like quench
2. CL8 — to have or keep in one's hands; to have or keep in one's hands; clung (to); clutched; gripped

DE

4. DE6 — to remove of all covering or surface layers; bare; clear; expose; scale sounds like renewed
5. DE7 — lacking a usual or natural covering; to remove of all covering or surface layers; to remove of all covering or surface layers; bald; bare sounds like funded

DU

7. DU5 — a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like dance, dense, done, once
8. DU4 — as in ridge, embankment; embankment; ridge; sandbank; sandbar sounds like boon, dawn, dean, den, dew
9. DU6 — as in got, worried; aggravated; annoyed; bedeviled; chafed sounds like done, fund

EN

11. EN5 — brought or having come to an end; to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; complete; completed sounds like t*
12. EN5 — to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle; to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; imbue; inculcate; infuse sounds like undo, undue
13. EN6 — to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle; to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle; imbued; inculcated

EU

15. EU6 — sounds like buck, chuck, duck, knack, knock

HE

17. HE5 — for this or that reason; from this or that place; accordingly; consequently; ergo sounds like dense, fence, pence, sense, tense

HU

19. HU5 — to lie low with the limbs close to the body; as in theory, speculation; as in hump; couch; crouch sounds like bunch, honey, lunch, munch, punch
20. HU7 — to lie low with the limbs close to the body; to lie low with the limbs close to the body; couched; crouched; huddled

LE

22. LE4 — to give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned; advance; loan sounds like bend, b**, end, fend, land

LU

24. LU5 — as in dinner, breakfast; as in breakfast, sup; the middle of the day; breakfast; buffet sounds like bunch, hunch, launch, lynch, munch
25. LU7 — as in breakfasted, supped; breakfasted; supped; boarded; dined out sounds like hunched, launched
26. LU4 — sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane

NE

28. NE4 — to have as a requirement; to be under necessity or obligation to; a state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful; bear; challenge sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
29. NE6 — impossible to do without; to have as a requirement; to have as a requirement; all-important; critical
30. NE6 — a slender hollow instrument by which material is put into or taken from the body through the skin; an arrow-shaped piece on a dial or scale for registering information; to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; hype; hypodermic sounds like beadle, noodle
31. NE7 — to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders; to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; baited; hassled
32. NE4 — sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead

NU

34. NU4 — lacking or shed of clothing; the state of having no clothes on one's body; lacking or shed of clothing; au naturel; bare sounds like food, knead, knew, lewd, mood
35. NU4 — having no legal or binding force; having no usefulness; to put an end to by formal action; bad; inoperative sounds like annul, cul, cull, dull, gull

UN

37. UN7 — sounds like needed
38. UN5 — to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); blink; bow sounds like ankle
39. UN8 — as in unfold, unfurl; unbutton; unfold; unfurl; unzip
40. UN10 — as in unbuttoned, unfolded; as in unfolded, unfurled; unbuttoned; unfolded; unfurled sounds like assailant, clenched, concurrent
41. UN5 — going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount; baroque; devilish; excessive; exorbitant sounds like anew
42. UN8 —
43. UN8 — as in unnecessary, unwanted; dispensable; unnecessary; unwanted; alternate